The law of friendly societies, and industrial and provident societies, with the acts, observations thereon, forms of rules etc., reports of leading cases at length, and a copious index

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Identifikator:: 875232663

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-2698

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Title:: The law of friendly societies, and industrial and provident societies, with the acts, observations thereon, forms of rules etc., reports of leading cases at length, and a copious index

Place of publication:: with the acts, observations thereon, forms of rules etc., reports of leading cases at length, and a copious index$gTenth edition, revised and enlarged

Publisher:: Shaw and Sons

Year of publication:: 1881

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 303 Seiten)

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Collection:: Economics Books

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44 INTRODUCTION. vided against by section 40 of the Building Societies Act, 1874. In this and other respects future quinquennial periods will doubtless bring great improvement. 82. In one respect an improvement may be expected during the next five years, from the completion of the extensive series of calculations based on the returns of sickness and mortality made by societies to the Registrar during the last quarter of a century. Dealt with by the skilled hand of the Actuary to the Registry Office, it may be anticipated that they will furnish to societies the means of more accurately estimating their con tingent liabilities than the excellent tables of Mr. Ratcliffe, based on the experience of a single affiliated Order, can afford. Many millions of facts will go to form the averages shown in these tables, ascertained from returns prepared with wonderful care and patience by the secretaries of numerous societies, and determined to be trust worthy by the most searching examination. Indeed one cannot withhold a tribute of admira tion for the zeal and industry—hardly ever ade quately requited—with which the secretaries of many societies labour for the public good in this matter (a). (a) “ The classes among whom Friendly Societies are formed are greatly averse to any undertaking involving mental labour, and the idea of periodical returns and of the other requirements of the statute is more alarming to them than it need be. It will be the province of those charged with the administration of the statute to endeavour, as far as possible, to combat this tendency, and by wise use of the materials in their hands to seek to show the societies that

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